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Relevanssi – A Better Search
by Christoph Vielgrader 4.8 (405 reviews)

Relevanssi – A Better Search

Relevanssi replaces the default search with a partial-match search that sorts results by relevance. It also indexes comments and shortcode content.

Relevanssi ranks #347 among WordPress.org plugins with 100,000+ active installations, a 4.8/5 rating from 405 reviews, and was last updated Sep 10, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1
v4.28.3 Current Version v4.28.3
Updated 1 week ago Last Update on 10 Sep, 2026
Refreshed 14 hours ago Last Refreshed on
Top 1% by installs Downloads +37% this week Actively maintained
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#347
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Active Installs
100K+
-39.1%
KW Avg Position
1.8
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Downloads
8.3M
+1,107 today
Support Resolved
68%
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Rating
96%
Review 4.8 out of 5
4.8 (405 reviews)

Next Milestone 200K

Total Progress 65.9%
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Reviews & Ratings

4.8
405 reviews
Overall 96%
5
369 (91%)
4
12 (3%)
3
4 (1%)
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4 (1%)
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Support Threads Overview

Resolved
Unresolved
22
Total Threads
15
Resolved
7
Unresolved
68%
Resolution Rate

Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

29 known vulnerabilities on record · 5 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

  1. Relevanssi – A Better Search [relevanssi] < 4.27.2

    CVE-2026-15941 · Fixed in v4.27.2

  2. Relevanssi – A Better Search [relevanssi] < 4.26.0

    CVE-2025-14719 · Fixed in v4.26.0

  3. Relevanssi – A Better Search [relevanssi] < 4.24.6

    CVE-2025-5016 · Fixed in v4.24.6

  4. Relevanssi – A Better Search [relevanssi] < 4.24.5

    CVE-2025-4396 · Fixed in v4.24.5

  5. Relevanssi – A Better Search [relevanssi] < 4.24.4

    CVE-2025-4054 · Fixed in v4.24.4

  6. Relevanssi – A Better Search [relevanssi] < 4.23.1

    CVE-2024-9021 · Fixed in v4.23.1

  7. Relevanssi – A Better Search [relevanssi] < 4.23.0

    CVE-2024-7630 · Fixed in v4.23.0

  8. Relevanssi – A Better Search [relevanssi] < 4.22.2

    CVE-2024-3214 · Fixed in v4.22.2

  9. Relevanssi – A Better Search [relevanssi] < 4.22.2

    CVE-2024-3213 · Fixed in v4.22.2

  10. Relevanssi – A Better Search [relevanssi] < 4.22.1

    CVE-2024-1380 · Fixed in v4.22.1

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Plugin Details

Version
4.28.3
Last Updated
Sep 10, 2026
Requires WP
4.9+
Tested Up To
7.1
PHP Version
7.1 or higher
Author
Christoph Vielgrader

Support & Rating

Rating
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Reviews
405
Support Threads
22
Resolved
68%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and administrators who want to improve the built-in search experience for their visitors. It replaces the default WordPress search with a partial-match, relevance-sorted engine that also indexes comments, tags, categories, custom fields, and shortcode content.

  • Relevance-sorted search results
  • Fuzzy partial-word matching
  • AND/OR query support
  • Phrase search with quotes
  • Custom excerpts with highlighted terms
  • Multisite friendly
  • bbPress support
  • Gutenberg friendly

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Relevanssi – A Better Search

See the top of the admin menu. There's 'User searches'. Displaying the relevance score Relevanssi stores the relevance score it uses to sort results in the $post variable. Just add something like echo $post->relevance_score to your search results template inside a PHP code block to display the relevance score. Did you mean? suggestions Relevanssi offers Google-style "Did you mean?" suggestions. See "Did you mean" suggestions in the Knowledge Base for more details.
It's the basic weighing scheme used in information retrieval. Tf stands for term frequency while idf is inverted document frequency. Term frequency is simply the number of times the term appears in a document, while document frequency is the number of documents in the database where the term appears. Thus, the weight of the word for a document increases the more often it appears in the document and the less often it appears in other documents.
Each document database is full of useless words. All the little words that appear in just about every document are completely useless for information retrieval purposes. Basically, their inverted document frequency is really low, so they never have much power in matching. Also, removing those words helps to make the index smaller and searching faster.

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